Jessica is an architect of organizing efforts across the United States. Over her career on the front lines, she has:

• Personally trained more than 20,000 organizers.
• Coordinated national election efforts that turned out 1.2 million Black voters in 2012.
•  Generated over 1 million youth contacts through Generation Vote.

Before founding PxP, Jessica served as the National Chair for Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) She built their Southern chapters from the ground up and engineered the organization’s guiding principles and practices. Prior to that, she served as the first National Training Director for the NAACP in the 2012 election cycle, where she ran the 50-state VAN infrastructure, built capacity and training programs across the local, state, and national levels, and drove historic Black turnout.

Her operational roots started at UC Santa Cruz. As a first-generation college student, she won two consecutive terms as Student Union Assembly President. She then took over as Organizing Director for the United States Student Association (USSA), driving multi-state campaigns that forced the passage of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act – the largest increase to federal grant aid since 1944. She also directed communications and training for Young People For (YP4) and led the Generational Alliance to massive contact numbers.

Beyond her direct organizational leadership, Jessica operates as an elite-level trainer. She has developed programs for Wellstone Action, Midwest Academy, and the Center for American Progress. The Washington Post named her one of their “50 Feminists to Watch,” and her work has been featured across Ebony, BET, CNN, and PBS NewsHour.

Jessica sits on the boards of Midwest Academy and the New Hampshire Youth Movement, and is a member of Democracy Partners. When she steps away from the work, you can usually find her spreading baked goods, alliteration, organizing pedagogy, and curated playlists wherever she goes. 

Bryan Perlmutter (he/him) is a national leader in youth organizing, campaign development, and organizational strategy. He specializes in building durable infrastructure in complex, hostile political environments. Over his 15-year career, he has:

• Founded grassroots organizations that serve as national models for youth civic engagement.

• Acted as a successful plaintiff in the landmark 2016 lawsuit challenging North Carolina gerrymandering.

• Founded and scaled intermediaries such as the Cypress Fund and the Southern Vision Alliance that provide resources to organizers across the South.

Before co-founding PxP, he served as the founding Executive Director of Ignite NC and the Ignite NC Action Fund – organizations that scaled rapidly into national case studies for building youth power. Under his leadership, Ignite NC launched the Queer Mobilization Fund, built a statewide fellowship of 60 students, led the campaign to repeal HB2, and drove record-breaking student turnout that ousted an incumbent governor by 10,277 votes.

His operational roots stretch back to age 18 at the Youth Organizing Institute, where he grew the group from a small volunteer operation into a fully staffed organization with a $500,000 budget. He negotiated contracts between North Carolina’s largest counties and law enforcement to win statewide policy changes around school discipline, and stepped to the front lines of the “Moral Monday” protests.

He later scaled his expertise, directing national infrastructure as the National Director of the Student Power Alliance and deploying movement capital with the Movement Voter Project. He roots his work in the U.S. South, driven by the belief that building real democracy requires confronting the historical legacies of the Confederacy and white supremacy.

Bryan currently sits on the boards of Down Home NC, the Southern Vision Alliance, and Horizon Philanthropy. His expertise has been featured on MSNBC, MTV, and PBS. He is a recipient of the Mario Savio Youth Activist Award and holds a Master’s in Public Administration, Nonprofit Management, and Policy from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.

 Jemima Abalogu (she/her) specializes in youth leadership development and accountable funding practices. In her work, she has:

• Helped direct over $3 million to grassroots youth organizations through participatory grantmaking.
• Authored and published statewide policy research on dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline.

Jemima’s dedication to advocacy work began in high school as the Youth Justice Ambassador for the Texas Center for Justice and Equity, where she researched and authored “Reversing The Pipeline to Prison in Texas: Ensuring Safe Students and Safe Schools.” This experience sparked a career focused on transforming how resources reach grassroots organizations. As a youth movement leader with the Visionary Freedom Fund, she helped design participatory grantmaking processes and directed over $3.6 million to organizations in the American Youth Justice Movement. Jemima holds a Master of Science in Philosophy and Public Policy from The London School of Economics and dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Philosophy & Social Justice from Loyola University Chicago.

She is a dedicated tactical operator in the Youth Justice Movement, specializing in grassroots advocacy and policy change surrounding restorative justice, school policing, and youth incarceration.

Nick Guthman is a progressive organizer, trainer, and leadership coach specializing in full-spectrum campaign management and youth leadership development. Over his career, he has:

• Co-founded Blue Future and the Progressive Leadership Initiative, two youth-led civic engagement organizations.
• Executed a decade of frontline youth organizing and movement building.
• Directed comprehensive campaign operations spanning fundraising, digital strategy, and coalition building.

Before launching his own organizations in 2018, Nick operated in Washington, D.C., directing grassroots campaigns centered on healthcare and economic justice. He managed complex infrastructure needs ranging from cultural organizing and policy research to talent recruitment.

His operational roots stretch back to 2014 as an organizer for Organizing For Action. Nick graduated Magna Cum Laude from American University, earning a Certificate in Advanced Leadership Studies and Campaign Management while driving grassroots efforts around racial, climate, and electoral justice.

Nsé is a political strategist, author, and the founder of Solidarity Analytics & Media. She specializes in building civic power and scaling technology to reshape the political map. Over her career, she has:

• Registered nearly 600,000 voters as the founding CEO of the New Georgia Project and the NGP Action Fund.

• Engineered the grassroots mobilization that flipped Georgia in the historic 2020 and 2021 elections.

• Directed government relations as a Senior Lobbyist for the American Association of University Professors.

Born in Nigeria and raised in Southwest Atlanta, Nsé stepped into politics at age 14 as a page for the Georgia House of Representatives. She anchored her legal and organizing foundation in civil and workers’ rights, managing operations as the Assistant Executive Director for the Canadian Association of University Teachers. From there, she took the helm at NGP and scaled a massive operation of organizers and culture creators that turned Georgia into a swing state.

Her operational expertise landed her on the Time 100 Next list and secured a fellowship at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. She is a frequent voice on CNN, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, speaking to audiences at SXSW, Harvard Law, and the Democracy Alliance. She’s currently writing her book, “When Sparks Become Flames,” documenting the mechanics she used to build a new Georgia.

Nsé holds a BS in psychology from Georgia Tech and a JD from the University of Dayton School of Law. Fluent in French, she advises movements across the Deep South, the Caribbean, and Africa. She navigates Atlanta politics armed with sarcastic humor, R&B playlists, and an impressive collection of Jordan 1s.

Kwesi Chappin is a community organizer who builds the operational engine for Black political power. He teaches marginalized communities how to force elected officials to give them resources. Over his career, he has:

• Mobilized 7 million members and ousted incumbent district attorneys as Senior Political Director at Color Of Change.

• Directed statewide GOTV operations in Ohio for President Obama’s 2012 re-election and helped elect the Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago.

• Co-founded Culture Shift Collective, engineering a system that trains DJs and party promoters to run local advocacy campaigns.

Born in Trinidad & Tobago, Kwesi immigrated to the U.S. as a child to secure better educational resources for his autistic brother. That raw lesson in political resource allocation drove him to study political science at the University of Maryland. He cut his teeth as an organizer on the 2008 Obama campaign, and by 2012, he was running statewide GOTV operations in Ohio to keep the state blue.

He deployed those organizing mechanics across the broader progressive sector: shutting down coal plants with the Sierra Club, organizing Arkansas churches on healthcare with SEIU, and building the first digital strategy program for organizers of color at the New Organizing Institute. He also served as Deputy Political Director at the Center for Popular Democracy, where he formalized their internal employee union. At the Decolonizing Wealth Project, Kwesi provided technical assistance for 23 reparations grantees and built the Alight, Align, Arise Conference, pulling together over 200 funders and activists. Today, he runs Culture Shift Collective, turning the local nightlife scene into a political organizing machine.

Based in Cheverly, Maryland, he throws a massive annual cookout and spins a 90s dance set guaranteed to make you move.

Faith Campbell is a brand architect who lives at the intersection of brand strategy, entertainment, and grassroots political power. She fuses high-level experiential design with hard civic advocacy. Over her career, she has:

• Co-founded Culture Shift Collective, designing a program that turns Black party promoters into trained civic leaders.

• Directed the Black Women’s Brunch Series for Color of Change, mobilizing 15,000 attendees and inspiring over 50,000 women to step into civic leadership.

• Scaled NASPORA (formerly We Buy Black) to over $1 million in revenue and produced national entertainment experiences for artists like Mary J. Blige and New Edition.

Faith spent a decade pioneering marketing strategies across the corporate, tech, and luxury sectors. Operating through her consultancy, Branding by Faith, she managed multimillion-dollar program budgets and built campaigns for Madison Chase Capital Advisors, Jet Senters Aviation, UPtv, and Aspire TV. She also produced massive live shows for R&B royalty, including Mary J. Blige, Anthony Hamilton, and Wale.

At Color of Change, she wove that production rigor into the social justice sector, producing the Civil Rights x Tech convening and a massive pop-up at Art Basel Miami. She also ran production for the Southern Vision Alliance’s Southern Summit. With the Decolonizing Wealth Project, she produced the inaugural Alight, Align, Arise convening and helped launch a $20 million reparations fund. As Chief of Staff at NASPORA, she took the distribution network for Black-owned businesses from inception to the million-dollar revenue mark.

Today, she leads Culture Shift Collective alongside Kwesi Chappin, running events that blend civic education with entertainment. Known in the industry as a “quiet storm,” Faith operates on the absolute certainty that the impossible is just a design problem waiting for a blueprint.

Kurston Cook (he/him) is an organizer and evaluator who converts political vision into organizational infrastructure. He operates at the intersection of grassroots organizing and public policy, helping power-building institutions measure and scale their impact. Over his 20-year career, he has:

• Founded Triangle Solutions Consulting to engineer strategic planning and evaluative learning for organizations advancing social and economic justice.

• Represented U.S. labor at the International Labor Organization at the United Nations in Geneva.

• Directed national strategy and mobilized young workers through leadership roles at the AFL-CIO, the Roosevelt Institute, and the Center for American Progress.

Before launching his firm in 2022, Kurston served as a Senior Strategist at Grassroots Solutions. He advised multi-state civic engagement campaigns and guided national organizations through high-stakes legislative strategy and structural transformations. He fuses the discipline of an organizer with the rigor of an evaluator, building measurement frameworks that track campaigns’ effectiveness.

Today, foundations and nonprofits hire his firm to map out scenario planning and quantify their grassroots efforts. He secures multi-year strategy engagements and functions as a practical ally, bringing hard analytics to complex institutional challenges. He anchors this heavy operational work with generosity, joy, and a sharp sense of humor.

Kurston holds a Master of Public Policy from UC Berkeley and a BA from the University of Michigan. He also holds a certificate in Human-Centered Design Research.

Morgan Stahr (she/her) is a national political organizer who engineers pathways for young people and women to seize political power. She specializes in leadership development and grassroots training. Over her career, she has:

• Co-founded and lead Blue Future, an organizing program housed within America’s largest progressive, youth-led PAC.

• Launched the Progressive Leadership Initiative Education Fund to provide proactive coaching for young social justice leaders.

• Directed grassroots organizing on the ground in New Hampshire for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign.

At Blue Future, Morgan builds the tactical training programs that teach student organizers how to run grassroots campaigns. She then deploys those organizers directly into critical battleground states. To back up her electoral work, she built the Progressive Leadership Initiative Education Fund as a dedicated 501(c)(3) to ensure young movement leaders get the professional coaching they need to sustain their careers.

Before stepping into national leadership, she cut her teeth on the ground in New Hampshire as an organizer for the Elizabeth Warren campaign. Originally from Northeastern Pennsylvania, she centers her work on making sure women and young people dictate the terms of our political system.

Morgan holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Southern California, focusing on advocacy and healthcare. She also earned a BA from American University in Communications, Law, Economics, and Government, rounded out by a minor in Mandarin Chinese.